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GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)

Lot 205
07.07.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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ID 990647
Lot 205 | GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 80 000
GEORGE ROMNEY (DALTON-IN-FURNESS 1734-1802 KENDAL)

Portrait of Mlle Pamela, later Lady Pamela Fitzgerald (?1773-1831), bust-length

oil on canvas

17 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (44.7 x 38.3 cm.)





Provenance

(Possibly) given to William Hayley (1745-1820), Felpham, Sussex; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 15 February 1821, lot 113 (part lot), 'Two sketches heads of females' (7 gns. to Figou).

with Newhouse Galleries, New York.

F. Howard Walsh (1913-1998) and Mary D. Fleming Walsh (1913-2005), Fort Worth, Texas,

Walsh Family Art Trust; Heritage Auctions, Texas, 10 November 2006, lot 25013, as 'Portrait of Lady Hamilton'.

with Philip Mould, as 'Study of a Muse (Emma Hamilton)', from whom acquired by the present owners.



Literature

W. Hayley, The Life of George Romney Esq., Chichester, 1809, p. 169.

J. Johnson, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley... [and] Memoirs of his son Thomas Alphonso Hayley, London, 1823, II, p. 187-8 and 194.

J. Romney, Memoirs of the Life and Works of George Romney… also, some particulars of the life of Peter Romney, his brother, London, 1830, p. 223.

H. Gamlin, George Romney and his Art, London, 1894, pp. 235-6.

Sir H. Maxwell, George Romney, London, 1902, p. 124.

G. Paston, George Romney, London, 1903, pp. 130-1, 197.

Lord R. Sutherland Gower, George Romney, London, 1904, pp. 78, 85.

T. Humphrey Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: a biographical and critical essay, with a catalogue raisonné of his works, London, 1904, II, p. 117.

A. B. Chamberlain, George Romney, London, 1910, p. 172.

D. A. Cross, A Striking Likeness: The Life of George Romney, Aldershot, 2000, p. 169.

A. Kidson, George Romney: A Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, New Haven and London, 2015, II, p. 447, no. 988, illustrated.
Artist:George Romney (1734 - 1802)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:British Painting
Genre:Portrait
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Paintings
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